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+// Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+// or more contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file
+// distributed with this work for additional information
+// regarding copyright ownership. The ASF licenses this file
+// to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
+// "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+// with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at
+//
+// http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+//
+// Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
+// software distributed under the License is distributed on an
+// "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
+// KIND, either express or implied. See the License for the
+// specific language governing permissions and limitations
+// under the License.
+
+#pragma once
+
+#include "arrow/status.h"
+#include "arrow/type_fwd.h"
+#include "arrow/util/visibility.h"
+
+namespace arrow {
+namespace internal {
+
+// Internal functions implementing Array::Validate() and friends.
+
+// O(1) array metadata validation
+
+ARROW_EXPORT
+Status ValidateArray(const Array& array);
+
+ARROW_EXPORT
+Status ValidateArray(const ArrayData& data);
+
+// O(N) array data validation.
+// Note the "full" routines don't validate metadata. It should be done
+// beforehand using ValidateArray(), otherwise invalid memory accesses
+// may occur.
+
+ARROW_EXPORT
+Status ValidateArrayFull(const Array& array);
+
+ARROW_EXPORT
+Status ValidateArrayFull(const ArrayData& data);
+
+ARROW_EXPORT
+Status ValidateUTF8(const Array& array);
+
+ARROW_EXPORT
+Status ValidateUTF8(const ArrayData& data);
+
+} // namespace internal
+} // namespace arrow